The pundits and the pollsters all said that Obama could not be defeated.
The Democrats in the Virginia State Senate tried to draw districts that were so favorable to them, that they guaranteed a Democrat-Left wing hold on Virginia.

They were wrong.

VATPA's extensive polling, and Obama's declining numbers show that there is a resurgent conservative movement in Virginia.(Polling in 2009 also showed that 20% of conservatives in Virginia voted for Obama.  They won't be voting for him again).

Yes, Virginia, the Democrats made a big mistake.  And the Republican Party leadership believed it.

There is a tremendous opportunity this November to not only retake the Virginia State Senate, but to RINO-proof it with a strong conservative majority.

On September 22- the Virginia Tea Party Alliance launched Beyond 21- Creating a Conservative Majority  . 

The Left has given us their playbook.  Now we're going to use it.

Your contribution will help insurgent conservative candidates win one of the most important elections in Virginia history.  We win this year, and we'll weaken the extremist agenda of the Democrat Party here in Virginia, and lay the ground work to reclaim our country.  This is the first step in making sure that Obama is a one-term president.

Every morning I start my day by sending a note to my two U.S. Senators to let them know how many days it has been since the Senate has passed a budget; 862 days as of today in case you didn’t know.  I also ask them when they and their Democrat colleagues are going fulfill their Constitutional responsibilities.

I think it is my duty as a citizen to hold my representatives at all levels, responsible to the people and the Constitution, so I make it part of my day to remind them that we are watching. I let them know when I am pleased with their actions and when I am displeased. Frankly my two Senators usually get more of the latter than the former.

When I communicate with them, their staff tries to communicate back, but often my communication does not fall into a category that is easily covered in one of the form letters or emails that they send out to virtually every communication from a constituent; except of course if you are a supporter or a potential donor to their next campaign. Such is my experience with my Senators Webb and Warner.

Senator Webb has long ago given up on communicating with anyone in Virginia that is not a bona fide and vetted supporter. He gave that up as soon as he saw what was happening to House members who tried to explain to their constituents the benefits of Obama care. During the break right before the health care vote, he took his wife on a fancy taxpayer funded boondoggle to Southeast Asia, and held not one meeting with the people of Virginia to see what they might be thinking about Obama care. At least Senator Warner held three town halls, one of which I attended; he’s got stones, I’ll give him that!

All that aside, this is centered on the two letters I received yesterday from Senator Warner’s staff.  The letters didn’t address the budget issue, but instead attempted to soothe me by explaining why the Senator did not vote for H.R. 2560, also known as Cut, Cap, and Balance and to my knowledge, the only actual budget that is on the table, and when I say table I mean “Tabled”; in the Senate that is.

“Senator Warner” (staffer) says he appreciates hearing from me about these important matters, and then explains why he did not vote for H.R. 2650. “He” says, “…there are more effective ways to address our country’s fiscal challenges.”  Challenges? Are you serious “Senator”? Have you looked around at America? We are in dire straits, and Democrats in the White House and Congress are making it worse!

“He” further outlines the work he has been doing with a “bipartisan group of Senators” and talks about the “Balanced Solution” that they have “put forward” (Uh Oh; sounds like code for tax increase).  Here is the tricky part; what will their plan do?

It “…will slash our deficits by $3.7 trillion over ten years…” That sounds BIG, so let’s look at that first!

 First of all, deficits are projected spending increases above what the current budget spends. The CBO routinely estimates future spending by adding 10 percent/year to the current budget for the next year, and continues this process year after year for the out years.  So what we are really talking about here is cutting the excessive spending that Democrats want to do back a little bit. How in Haiti are we ever going to balance our budget, let alone pay down any of our debt if we keep on deficit spending “Senator Warner”?

We are currently running deficits over $1 trillion/year; the first two years of Obama were $1.2 trillion each, this year is projected to be over $1.4 trillion. So saving a “mere” $3.7 trillion from the deficit over 10 years is like urinating on a forest fire! We’re talking about saving $3.7 trillion from a deficit that will most certainly exceed $12 trillion in the next 10 years! That is still over $9 trillion of new debt and borrowing “Senator”; this is what you call a PLAN!

Then “Senator Warner” lays out all the dismal and frightening figures about how much government costs and how little government is taking in and then “He” explains how it all has to work when he says, “…the only way to close the gap... is to attack both sides of the ledger.” In other words we need to stop spending and raise revenues and “He” says, this “…is what our bipartisan plan does.”  (Oooh it must be good; it’s bipartisan!) The problem is Democrats never attack spending, and they fight rabidly for more taxes (they call them revenues or contributions; depends on the phase of the moon).

As I have illustrated above they have no intention, even in this “bipartisan” group to do anything more than slightly slow deficit spending, and they have every intention of demanding new taxes.

And that my fellow citizens is why we need to have “Citizen Representatives” once again representing our interests in Washington; real people who have worked real jobs, and balanced real budgets, to raise real families.

We have an opportunity right now in Virginia, to select between a Conservative Citizen in the U.S. Senate, or another professional politician who will represent the interests of the party and his donors, but do little to look out for the people who elected him.

That choice is former Senator George Allen, former DNC Chair and Obama cheerleader Tim Kaine, or Real Citizen and grass roots Conservative Jamie Radtke. Which will you choose?

The Virginia Tea Party Alliance and the Hampton Roads Tea Party are co-sponsoring the Tea Party Express/CNN Tea Party Presidential Primary Debate.

The debate is Monday night, September 12 at 8 PM.  You can watch it on TV, OR you can be part of the live studio audience. We have been chosen to be one of three live remote broadcast sites in the United States!  The debate is being held in Tampa, and interactive studio audiences from Phoenix, Cincinatti and Portsmouth, VA!

Join us at the Commodore Theater on Monday September 12! Get your tickets today- Tickets HERE

You can be a part of a live studio audience in the interactive Presidential Primary Debate.  The questions for the candidates are not coming from politicos, professors, or pundits, but from YOU- grassroots American voters.  CNN will be broadcasting LIVE from the Commodore Theater in Portsmouth, Virginia.

If you have a question for the candidates- it must be submitted to us at: karen@vateapartyalliance.org no later than Sunday, September 4. Please include your name, email, and phone in order for your question to be considered.

 
The Commodore Theater in Portsmouth has graciously opened its doors to us, and so there will be no charge to participate.  If you want a dinner seat, please be there by 6 PM, and enjoy some of the offerings of the Commodore's Theater menu.  Dinner's range from $6.95- $9.95.  The snack bar will be open for the balcony seats.

 
Got a question about the event?  email: vatpa.pac@gmail.com

 

    A guest post by Jamie Jacoby of the Richmond Tea Party                               

No more beating around the bush. I don’t work for you, you work for me. Got it? Do you want my vote in November 2012?

Here are my terms:
1. If you nominate retread insider George Allen to be the Virginia senate candidate, I won’t be voting R

2. If you raise the federal debt ceiling under any circumstances at all, I won’t be voting R

3. If you nominate a former central banker (Herman Cain), some national retread insider (Romney, Gingrich, etc), or someone who writes cheat notes on her hand for an interview (Palin) as your presidential nominee, I won’t be voting R

Nice, eh?

 To the Leftists, Tea Party Americans are among the most hated people in the United States. Black Congressional Members of the Congressional Black Caucus,  (the Congressional Black Caucus is an overtly leftist group) have been using the "job fairs" they set up to invoke racial hatred. What would happen if the Tea Party, or the Christian Church, or even the Republican Party used "job fairs" as a propaganda tool?

 Yesterday, Congressional Black Caucus member, Andre Carson, said that tea party members wanted to see blacks hang from trees. It's an outrageous lie, and Carson's twisting of the truth frankly mimimizes the suffering of many Blacks during the Jim Crow years. Lynching was a type of genocide. What a shallow man, or a callous one, Carson must be to use such a terrible time as a political tool. To equate the tea party who favor limited government with such a genuine crime against humanity is truly incredible. 

(How ironic that the KKK which conducted many of the lynchings, was the acknowledged terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.  But hey, that's all in the past now, right? )

Carson's baseless charges came just one week after Maxine Waters said that the Tea Party could go to hell.

 But, neither Maxine Waters nor Andre Carson will be disciplined for their unconscionable behavior and rhetoric. (See here). There is no longer any shame in making up slurs against people one disagrees with.  Apparently in the age of President Obama's request for civil discourse, this is the new civil discourse. 

Of course, Carson's listeners, like Waters' listeners, not only tolerated such outrageous statements, but believed them and cheered them on. As one of my Facebook friends Winsome Earle Sears said,

Forget about him: my concern is for the AUDIENCE who AGREED with him!  How can you even have a sensible conversation with people who think like this?  How can you possibly win them over?

She's right.  It's a two pronged issue.  Those like Carson,Waters, and Al Sharpton, who spew this kind of garbage, and the people who keep electing them. What is more frightening- Carson's hate filled rhetoric, or the crowds and those in the Congressional leadership that accept and promote it? 

The divide in America is deep. The political, culural and economic issues facing our nation are not merely partisan ones.  They are the result of a culture unmoored from the truth of its history, a culture that has lost its identity, one that has disregarded the spiritual foundations that brought it Liberty, and a culture that has bought into the lie that wealth is limited and must be redistributed by a government that should not have any limits at all.

God help us.

2 Chronicles 7:14 

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